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Adults. Head rough. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps ascending.
Wingspan 30–38 mm. Thorax rich orange-brown like the forewings, the abdomen more like the hindwings. Forewings orangish brown and purplish brown; terminally purplish marked or tinged; patterned transversely (banded and several-lined); the patterning well marked (with a broad purplish marginal band contrasting with the inner orange-brown part, and six dark lines); reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform defined. Hindwings whitish, fuscous, and yellowish; terminally darkened, or conspicuously patterned (the dark fuscous border quite sharply defined); with a clear discal mark; without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines; rough-scaled. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found May and June.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly rounded; feeding on Ononis.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; umbra (Bordered Sallow).
Heliothinae.
Illustrations. • P. umbra (Bordered Sallow), with other Heliothidinae and Acontiinae: Newman. HELIOTHIDINAE. 1, Pyrrhia umbra (Bordered Sallow); 2, Helicoverpa armigera (Scarce Bordered Straw); 3, Heliothis viriplaca (Marbled Clover); 4, Heliothis peltigera (Bordered Straw). ACONTIINAE. 5, Lithacodia pygarga (Marbled White Spot); 6, Eustrotia uncula (Silver Hook); 7, Eublemma ostrina (Purple Marbled); 8, Eublemma parva (Small Marbled); 9, Acontia lucida (Pale Shoulder); 10, Deltote bankiana (Silver-Barred); 11, Emmelia trabealis (Spotted Sulphur). From Newman, 1869. • P. umbra (Bordered Sallow), with Acontiinae, Amphipyrinae, Hadeninae and other Heliothidinae: Kirby. ACONTIINAE. 13, Acontia lucida (Pale Shoulder); 17, Eublemma minutata (Scarce Marbled); 18, Deltote bankiana (Silver Barred); 19, Eustrotia uncula (Silver Hook); 20, Lithacodia deceptoria (Pretty Marbled); 21, Lithacodia pygarga (Marbled White Spot); 22, Emmelia trabealis (Spotted Sulphur). AMPHIPYRINAE. 5, Panemeria tenebrata (Small Yellow Underwing). HADENINAE. 3, Anarta myrtilli (Beautiful Yellow Underwing); 4, Anarta cordigera (Small Dark Yellow Underwing). HELIOTHIDINAE. 8. Heliothis viriplaca (Marbled Clover); 9, Protoschinia scutosa (Spotted Clover); 10, Heliothis peltigera (Bordered Straw); 11, Periphanes delphinii (Pease Blossom); 12, Pyrrhia umbra (Bordered Sallow). CATOCALINAE. 28, Minucia lunaris (Lunar Double Stripe). From Kirby 42.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: the genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae. Version: 14th February 2021. delta-intkey.com’.
